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==Key Investigators==
* Michael Onken
* Jan Schlamelcher
* Andrey Fedorov
* Christian Herz

==Project Description==

This software project is part of the [http://qiicr.org/ QIICR project].

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<h3>Objective</h3>
* Add API to DCMTK (library called dcmpmap) which allows easy creation and reading of DICOM Parametric Map objects
* Parametric Map objects have been introduced in DICOM with [ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/final/sup172_ft2.pdf Supplement 172] in 2014.
* From the Supplement: DICOM Parametric Maps include quantitative derived images computed from acquired images, where each pixel value has a "meaning" in the real world, and the name "parametric" alludes to the meaning being the parameter of something, such as a pharmacokinetic model. In general, the term "parametric map" is loosely used to refer to any derived image whose pixel values have a quantitative meaning, as opposed to acquired images, whose pixel values may or may not have meaning 
* This week we will work to discuss and finalize the API of the the library and prepare it for checkin to DCMTK
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<h3>Approach, Plan</h3>
* Discuss existing API and refine it
* Finalize it (documentation, cleanup) for checkin into DCMTK
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<h3>Progress and Next Steps</h3>
* There is already a first version of a code generator that creates code for DICOM modules, functional groups and partly IODs
* Extended qiicr api for converting itk to DICOM parametric map and vv (not complete)
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== References ==
* RWVM sample dataset: [[File:QIN-HEADNECK-rwvm.dcm.zip]]
* RWVM generation code: https://github.com/QIICR/Slicer-PETDICOMExtension/blob/master/SUVFactorCalculatorCLI/SUVFactorCalculator.cxx#L856-L965